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• Configuration.
• Globalization (locale, time zone, currency).
• Logging.
• Security (authentication/authorization).
• Actor Management (profiles, roles - required for security; Actors - people, external services) Think of UML Actor. Required to remove dependency on Party
• Persistence (file system or databaseData Store (entity engine).
• Lang package to provide classes that are fundamental to the framework
• Services.
• Runtime management.

Design Goals

• Single jar file.

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  Ron, what you are describing is the current mess we are trying to fix. Consolidating the closely-coupled components into a single component (and jar file) is one of the main reasons for the rewrite - that is why it is first on the list of design goals.

• Compact, small memory footprint.
• Scalable from SBCs to enterprise-class ERP systems.
• Reuses existing technologies.

• Easy to configure and maintain.

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  title Design Participants Note
  Please take some to watch this presentation by Joshua Bloch: How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters.

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• Library: OFBiz
• Java package name: org.apache.ofbiz.foundation.actor

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Data Store

• Library: OFBiz Entity Engine, JDBC
• Java package name: org.apache.ofbiz.foundation.persistenceentity

Services

• Library: JMS, Quartz Scheduler
• Java package name: org.apache.ofbiz.foundation.service

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"Security"->"Configuration";
"Security"->"Globalization";
"Security"->"Actor ManagementLogging";
"Security"->"ActorData ManagementStore";
"ActorData ManagementStore"->"Configuration";
"Data Store"Lang->"Globalization";
"ActorData ManagementStore"->"Logging";
"Data Store"Persistence->"Cache";
"SecurityServices"->"PersistenceConfiguration";
"PersistenceServices"->"LangGlobalization";
"Services"->"LangLogging";
"PersistenceServices"->"CacheData Store";
"LoggingServices"->"GlobalizationSecurity";
"ConfigurationGlobalization"->"LoggingConfiguration";
"SecurityCache"-> "LoggingConfiguration";
"Actor ManagementLang"->"LoggingGlobalization";
"PersistenceLogging"->"LoggingConfiguration";
}